10th American History Unit V- A Nation Facing Challenges. Chapter 18 Section 5 The Movement Continues. The Movement Continues. The Main Idea The civil rights movement was in decline by the 1970s, but its accomplishments continued to benefit American society. Reading Focus

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The Civil Right Act of 1968 prohibited the following forms of discrimination:

1. Refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion or national origin

2. Discrimination against a person in the terms, conditions or privilege of the sale or rental of a dwelling.

3. Advertising the sale or rental of a dwelling indicating preference of discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin.

4. Coercing, threatening, intimidating, or interfering with a person's enjoyment or exercise of housing rights based on discriminatory reasons or retaliating against a person or organization that aids or encourages the exercise or enjoyment of fair housing rights.

John Lewis - In 1961, Lewis joined SNCC in the Freedom Rides, he and others were beaten by mobs. In 1963, Lewis helped plan, speak and took part in the March on Washington. In 1965, he led 525 marchers across the Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. State troopers attacked the marchers in a violent incident that later became known as "Bloody Sunday."

In 1965, Jesse Jacksonparticipated in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s movement in Selma, Alabama. In 1966, King selected Jackson to be head of the SCLC’s Operation Breadbasket in Chicago Jackson was present with King in Memphis when he was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

Andrew Youngwas appointed to serve as pastor of a church in Marion, Alabama. In 1960, he joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Young was jailed for his participation in civil rights demonstrations, both in Selma, Alabama, St. Augustine, Florida ands Birmingham, Alabama. With King in Memphis at assassination.

Ralph Abernathy- pastor of the First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Abernathy and King organized the bus boycott in Montgomery. Abernathy was Martin Luther King's Number Two in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. President of the SCLC after King's death. Organized the Poor People's Campaign.